I've also volunteered with a cat rescue for over 15 years doing adoptions, designing marketing materials, managing volunteers and, of course, photographing cats. This means if you have been a friend of Pentax since the old days and have a lot of the old lenses, they will fit on the K100D Super however, the camera has to be set up in the custom functions so it knows that a manual lens or extension tubes are attached. A little curve on the back lets the thumb settle and means the camera can be used one handed easily enough. However, a smaller sensor usually means more noise which may mean that in the Noise test, the Olympus may suffer more than the others at higher ISO ratings.

However, the paper-white background gets distracting, and the automatic sensor -- which blanks it when you put your eye to the viewfinder -- makes it even more so. In Europe and the UK all Olympus camera`s come with a standared two year waranty card, and for it to be effective here it must be specificaly stamped UK. The Canon still gave quite flat images, the grass was a pale green and a misty finish seems to have appeared over the whole image. Macro is a full-frame L-mount lens that's designed to be a medium telephoto, portrait and macro lens all-in-one. We've been using a full production version of this 120 fps sports camera, to see what you gain (and, perhaps, lose).EF lenses intended for full frame cameras can be mounted on EF-S bodies, but EF-S lenses cannot be mounted on EF bodies. Aperture-priority mode changes the depth of field allowing you to obtain softly blurred backgrounds or, alternatively, get everything in the frame into focus. These are not necessarily degrading to the camera as they are pretty standard features with any company. The E-500 has 13 different settings for ISO and whilst a lot of these are stupidly close to each other to notice a difference, they may come in useful.

In fact, we couldn't avoid severe underexposures of a backlit subject with the available metering tools, which is inexcusable for a camera of this class. ISO100 produces an image with no noise but a slightly yellowish cast whereas ISO200 has gone a little darker on the blacks and the orange of the petals has deepened. Like a politician being questioned in a scandal, the Canon EOS 400D gave a standard response throughout. The two buttons nearest the thumb are the custom white balance button where you can point the camera at something white and the camera will set the white balance to the whiteness of that object and the AF zone select.The headlines features for the EOS 400D are its ten megapixel sensor, nine-point AF sensor (from the EOS 30D) and new 'EOS Integrated Cleaning System'. DPReview readers have spoken: after two rounds of voting, it's time to announce the winner of our 2023 Reader's Choice Product of the Year award, along with a couple of honorable mentions. Advantages are that spare batteries can be found almost anywhere when out and about, but the downside is that they will run out quicker. Visit our Competitions Forum, where you'll find our monthly competition and other external competitions to enter.

i understand about not wanting to repeat yourself, but i just found it hilarious, the way you did it, in that the one camera in what the dust reduction actually works got no mention for that. ISO800 is showing a lot of noise in all areas and the quality of the image is starting to degrade with ISO1600 showing a full spectrum of pixels in all areas especially low key. Furthermore, a bit of adhesive surrounding the sensor is designed to grab the dust, keeping it from flying around inside the camera chassis. The 400D is one of the smallest in the test and a lot of people shy away because they are too small to cope with. Canon and Nikon are the obvious answers, but snapping on their heels are Olympus, Pentax and even Sony, having released an SLR to combat the big companies.Anything as subjective as overall image quality, build quality, usability, menusystem etc can only be judged after a sufficiently long field-testing period, ie taking pictures. Secondly, you say: "The smaller sensor also means that depth of field is affected and is actually greater on the four thirds system which is great for landscape photographers, but not so good for portraits or macro work. Quote: I see plenty of macro shots with a shallow depth of field, for example flowers use a shallow dof, focusing on the centre. The picture quality was good, though, with the A100 bringing out the most detail in the blank sky of the landscape.

No human is able to grasp everything about a new camera in a short period of time, thinking otherwise leads only to superficial reviews. Re: the Pentax - it goes to show that sometimes packing the pixels in doesn't always get the best results from a sensor, and sometimes less is more. The Nikon D40x gave good results in controlled lighting and even the Portrait image had good colour, but had a tendency to get pipped at the post every time. It also goes to show that the Olympus has other things going for it apart from a dust reduction which is getting pretty standard on todays DSLRs.The 400D uses Canon's Digic II chipset rather than the newer Digic III, and we wonder if the company might have been able to eke out better performance and noise suppression with the latter. The Olympus E-500 should have won hands down as being an older camera is higher specification, but still lost out to the overall winner which is the Pentax K100D Super. Shot at ISO800 and at the widest aperture I could get with the light and focal length, the shutter speed was 1/40 second and the image is still sharp despite a slow speed. On the issues of depth of field, I`ve come to the conclusion there are none with fourthirds, a year ago my views would have been different. The camera comes with the Manual in both paper and CD formats, a quick start guide in pocket size which is quite handy, battery, a promotional CD on EF lenses, strap, basic promotional material, USB, AV lead, charger and drivers which includes Zoombrowser EX 5.